Welcome to the International POPs Elimination Network:

"We cherish our children, life and nature. As our worlds evolve we continue to face challenges of development and protecting what we hold dear to us. We welcome you to the IPEN website, in hopes that you join us to work together for a toxics-free future where chemical production, use and disposal does not cause harm to ourselves and future generations"

Co-chairs:    Prof. Jamidu H. Y. Katima.    Dr. Mariann Lloyd-Smith.
 

New to the Issues?


See the Movie
View a 6 minute movie about IPEN and the threat of POPs

  International POPs Projects
Learn from examples of NGO POPs Projects on the Ground.

  What Are POPs?
Read about the impacts of the chemicals called persistent organic polluants or POPs.

  What is the Stockholm Convention? Read about the Stockholm Convention and how it protects us all from POPs.

  Envisioning a Toxics-Free Future
Read how IPEN groups all over the world are working for a toxics free future.

  Educational Guides
NGO Educational Guides to Key International Policies: Book Download educational booklets on POPs, Highly Hazardous Pesticides and SAICM.
These booklets are available in several languages, and provide a swift orientation of key international chemical policies and how NGOs can utilize agreements by the international community to protect their local communities from toxic threats.

IPEN Updates & Action


News & IPEN Press Releases:

  Nanotechnology  as a .pdf 582KB.
A brief background information report from the African workshop on nanotechnology and nanomaterials.

  UN International Expert Committee: Endosulfan requires global action Pesticide moves closer to a global ban.

Chinese Press Release - .pdf 76KB
Portuguese Press Release - .pdf 48KB
English Press Release - .pdf 148KB

  Global Phase-out of Lead in Paints
The international community at ICCM2 endorsed a proposal from an IPEN participating organization from India, Toxics Link, to form a partnership to promote the global phase-out of lead in paints. To our knowledge, this is the first time an NGO proposal has been adopted for global action by governments and all stakeholders in a UN process on chemicals. Furthermore, the proposal was endorsed by the G8 in April and by the industry itself, via the International Paint and Printing Ink Council in May 2009.

  SAICM / ICCM2 Outcomes:
IPEN had hoped the international community at ICCM2 would have take more urgent actions to address the critical toxic chemical problems current and future generations are faced with.
See IPEN ICCM2, Press Releases and Nanotechnology, Press Releases

However IPEN is celebrating the overdue global action to eliminate lead from paint, Learn More

Images from Geneva:


  IPEN COP4 Outcomes:
See the IPEN COP4 Press Releases
and Learn about IPEN's Keep the Promise Campaign and activities to uphold the Stockholm Conventions and the responsibilities of the Parties.


   IPEN Congratulates and Celebrates IPENers
Olga Speranskaya and Yuyun Ismawati who have been awarded the coveted 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize, for grassroots environmental activism. and
Time Magazine's Heroes of the Environment 2009


 


* POPs Persistent Organic Pollutants. This is a group of chemicals that are very toxic to people and the environment.








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